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If you have a brick-and-mortar store, your competition is pretty limited to the other stores in your area. If you have an online store however, your competition is pretty much anyone in the world that sells the same product as you.

Market your product in a way that a B2B customer not only considers it the only logical choice, but also sticks to their decision in the future. Grow Marketing & Sales b2b marketing online marketing product design product development

Being self-critical and pushing yourself to overstep boundaries for the better. Constantly double guessing one and believing that the others are a better. This is a byproduct of the ruthlessly competitive world we reside in.

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